Appointments

Pair return to Brilliant Solutions

Mortgage club and specialist packager Brilliant Solutions has appointed a senior business development manager and...

Key Group appoints new non-exec director

Key Group has appointed Gillian Kent as non-executive director. Kent (pictured) has almost 30 years...

Accord Mortgages appoints corporate account manager

Accord Mortgages has added a new corporate account manager with the appointment of Andy Millard. Millard...

Pepper hires regional development manager for Yorkshire and NE

Pepper Money has appointed Max Hill as its new regional development manager for Yorkshire...

Signature Private Finance hires relationship manager

Privately-owned principal lender, Signature Private Finance, has promoted Nazia Yaqub to the position of...

One Stop Business Finance expands operations and brokering team

Alternative SME funding specialist, One Stop Business Finance, has appointed Collette Munson to its...

New development finance proposition from Castle Trust

Castle Trust has revamped its development finance offering with the recruitment of Simon Whitfield...

United Trust Bank appoints NED to board of directors

Sarah Laessig has joined the board of United Trust Bank as a non-executive director...

Three new BDMs for Newcastle Intermediaries

Newcastle Intermediaries has hired three new business development managers (BDMs) to cover the Midlands,...

Shawbrook appoints regional development manager for Scotland

Shawbrook Bank has appointed Simon Smith as regional development manager. He will be based in...

Fiduciam grows all-female Spanish team

Fiduciam has increased its Spanish team to eight, following the recruitment of three new...

The Mortgage Lender expands sales team

The Mortgage Lender has grown its sales team from 21 to 26. David Eaves has...

Maria Harris joins United Trust Bank board

Maria Harris, former director of intermediary lending at Atom Bank, has been appointed as...

Teddy Nyahasha to become OneFamily CEO

OneFamily chief executive Simon Markey will be stepping down after seven years. He will be...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

Latest news

Meet the hosts of Mortgage’s Got Talent

As the mortgage industry prepares to swap case discussions, criteria and rates for microphones,...

Complex income must not become barrier to Scottish homeownership

Mortgage lenders need to keep adapting their criteria as changing working patterns leave growing...

LiveMore raises LTV limits and adds flexibility to equity release overpayments

LiveMore has increased maximum LTVs on mortgages with a repayment element and introduced more...

Cost of collapsed property sales rises to £258m in second quarter

Failed property transactions cost the UK housing market an estimated £257.9m during the second...

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